Bell and ball toy



W. F. BLAKE.

BELL AND BALL TOY.

APPLICATION FILE-D AUG-25,1919.

Paten ted Febrl5, 1921'.

PATENT orFicE.

WILLIAM E. BLAKE, 0F TOLEDO, OHIO.

BELL AND BALL TOY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 15, 1921.

Application filed August 25, 1919. Serial No. 319,691.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WVILLIAM F. BLAKE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Toledo, in the county oi Lucas and State oi Ohio. haveinvented a new and useful Bell and Ball Toy, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to bell an d ball toys in which the same areattached to handle; and the objects of my invention are, first toprovide a toy for small children which is light, simple. and amusing;and second, to provide a toy having a handle to which is attached a belland a ball so they cannot be easily lost.

I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing, in which- Figure 1 is a view of the toy as a whole; Fig. 2, adetail View showing the method. oi? attaching the bell and ball to thehandle; and Fig. 3, detail view of the bell showing the sounding slots.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring to Fig. 1, the figure 1 indicates the handle made of wood orother material and 2 a spherical bell attached to the end of handle 1. 3shows the collets through which the body of a pin. or thus hell 2 isheld in alinement with the handle, 4t is an opening in side of the bellfor inserting anchor 6 which is placed to one side of the axis of thebell to facilitate movement, thereby causing the bell to ring. 5 is anendless elastic band with one end looped over anchor 6 and the otherover the e e of iii one side of the hollow rubber ball 7 thus connectingthe ball with handle 1. The swivel eye device 9 has the prongs 12lllSCllQt l in the ball 7 and crossed at such an angle that when tensionis placed on the projecting eye 9 the prongs 12 are forced to pressoutward and upward on the sides of the ball 7 and so cannot be pulledout. The loose balls 8 act as a clapper in hell 2. The sounding slots 10are shown in Fig. 8, also one of the collet-s 3; the sleeve 11 of theother collet nail passes and swivel device 9 which is insertedisinserted at the intersection of the slots 10 and so keeps hell 2 fromsliding out of position by way of the sounding slots 10; thus collets 3keep bell 2 in vertical alinement with handle 1, yet allow the bell torotate and chime.

In the operation of my invention, a child grasps the handle 1 andbounces the ball 7 on the ground, wall, floor, chair, etc. The elasticband 5 will stretch and bring the ball back, while the clapper 8 ringsor chimes against the sides of bell 2, thus amusing the child. This toycan be used as a rattle or the child can whirl the handle and as theball is attached at one side of the axis of the hell it will readilywhirl around describing a wheel or circle.

Having thus described I claim as new and desire to secure by tersPatent, is:

1. In a bell and ball toy, the combination of a handle with a bellrotatably attached to the handle and an anchor projecting from theperiphery oil: the bell and at one side of the axis of the hell with anendless elastic band looped over said anchor and the other end of saidband looped over a swivel eye in a hollow rubber ball to cause the bellto rotate on the handle.

2. A toy of the class described, comprising a handle, a bell rotatablymounted on said. handle, a flexible member pivot-ally secured at one endto said bell eccentric to the axis thereof, andv a ball suspended bysaid flexible member and adapted to swing the latter to impart rotativemovement to said bell.

3. A toy oi: the class described comprising a handle, a hell rotatablymounted on said handle, an anchorage member engaged with. said belleccentric to the axis thereof, an endless elastic band engaged with saidan chorage member, and. a ball carried by said band and adapted to swingtherewith to rotate said bell.

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my invention, what Let- Witnesses GLADYS C. DIPMAN, M. S. RAMSEYER.

